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At de Paviljoens I was able to browse through a book I’ve lusted after for a long time: PIG 05049 by Christien Meindertsma. Being a butchers daughter, pigs featured in my yonger years as things to be cut up and turned into other things. Coming home from school I was usually set to make slavinken for the convenience of our customers.  Ms Meindertsma spent energy and thought researching all the products made from a single pig, the single pig issue giving the project an endearing scale. So many uses for pig meat, bones, intestines, skin: astounding!  The book is lovely & I’m going to get it as a  birthday present.

This is a Banksy – rings a bell? It did for me! The ‘everything looks better in a circle’ text that someone left for me at Krugerstraat may have been inspired by this tongue-in-cheek grafitti that’s been printed on posters, t-shirts & the like. Check the Banksy site, he’s got a quirky sense of humor that I like.

It also reminds me of a Lawrence Weiner I saw in Utrecht:

What Googlers looked for, too:

• lawrence weiner
• banksy text

Must have been on a ‘been here before’ trip in Delft last week. For starters I clocked a  ’Sam Abell’  - compare pics above.  First one is mine, second Abell’s . Mr. Abell sees gardens where no one else does, his book Seeing Gardens is one of my prize possessions. Then I snapped a photo [of a photo] by Bruno van den Elshout and a view from my car window coming home. How curious is this?

Later: a better Bruno picture screen-shotted from his website:

What Googlers looked for, too:

• an artists paradise

It is – of course – impossible to see the city of Delft unless through a screen of tropes: Vermeer and Delft Blue, to name but a few. Spent a few hours last week happily re- visiting  old haunts and looking at some new places – for instance the Art Supermarket that I stumbled upon close to the Old Church. Nice place, nice cafe, affordable art – I would not mind selling some of my stuff there! Have a contact name and number so could give it a try.

In Delft, Vermeer is everywhere – his ‘girl with a pearl earring‘ I photographed in a cafe, looking over her shoulder at us cofffee-drinkers. His ‘little street‘ I encountered leaving Begijnhof (situated between the Spoorsingel and the Oude Delft).  Delft Blue in abundance at the Art Supermarket – forgot to write down the name of the artist that composed these pieces.  Also met with a second-hand shop by the name of ‘niets nieuws’ i.e. ‘nothing new’. Was not open so it goes on my ‘to visit’ list.

‘nother labyrinth.  I’ve been fascinated by de Hooch’s use of perspective in his paintings of indoor scenes for a while - his humans are merely an afterthought. In this he is very unlike Vermeer, fhis Delft contemporary. I was asking myself the following question: what would de Hooch paint if he would walk around in Holland today? Riding shotgun on the A2 I found a sort-of answer, at least something I wanted to try. So I gathered material for this compilation – it’s a little stilted, but may be a beginning.